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...matured, I remained an MJ loyalist, even as he embarked on his often startling evolution: the skin-lightening, the child-molestation charges, the marriage to Lisa Marie Presley. I did not consider him a pariah. Nor did most of my black friends. That reverence was rooted in the fact that MJ's defiance of easy categorization showed us it was O.K. to be different. But even while being different, he remained true. His appearance kept changing but you could hear his roots. His music managed to retain its authenticity, its soulfulness, even as it ventured further into pop. We were...
...Things would get worse. With sponsors turned off by Jackson's private life - Pepsi and sneaker brand LA Gear, for instance, had backed him - he further lost control of his finances. Duff investments and a divorce settlement with Lisa Marie Presley helped push Jackson to increasingly use his earnings from music as collateral for loans, first from Bank of America (BoA), before Fortress Investment Group, a specialist in distressed debt, took the loans off BoA's hands. By the mid-2000s, Jackson was believed to be $270 million in debt. (See Thriller's entry on the All-TIME 100 Albums...
Amanda Knox is a riddle. The expatriate American student has been the mysterious, ambivalent Mona Lisa face plastered across television, websites and newspapers since a few days after Halloween 2007. According to Italian authorities and their partisans in the blogosphere, where her case has been strenuously debated, behind her beatific smile lies a psycho hedonist capable of depraved murder. But family and friends insist she's just a granola-crunching athlete and honor student from Seattle who has, through bad luck, become the poster child for the perils that await American girls caught up in the dark side of Italy...
...Lisa Heller Boragine was a graduate student at Syracuse University when she realized how much colleges throw out unnecessarily. In 1995, ?Boragine ventured into a Dumpster in search of a lost ring. "I was floored by what was in there," she says. "There were TV sets, an unopened case of ramen noodles and a cigar box full of rare stamps." She went on to found Dump & Run, a nonprofit that has advised more than 30 institutions on how to salvage what students jettison, including some truly trashy items. "Someone at one school brought in a 3-ft.-tall in?flat...
...that his calendar reform committee acknowledged that substantial resources would need to be devoted to making J-Term programming a reality. “If formal programming was to be a success, a lot of resources had to be devoted to it,” says former Harvard professor Lisa L. Martin, a co-chair of a committee focused on J-Term during the time of curricular review. “But this never happened.”Though the Conley report suggested that an office and staff should be dedicated to J-Term planning, and administrators and members...